The Sarcomere and Skeletal Muscle Disease / edited by Nigel G. Laing.

Springer eBooks

The Sarcomere and Sarcomerogenesis -- Skeletal Muscle Alpha-Actin Diseases -- Nebulin—A Giant Chameleon -- Skeletal Muscle Disease Due to Mutations in Tropomyosin, Troponin and Cofilin -- Investigations into the Pathobiology of Thin-Filament Myopathies -- Mouse Models for Thin Filament Disease -- Thick Filament Diseases -- Acute Quadriplegic Myopathy: An Acquired “Myosinopathy” -- Third Filament Diseases -- The Z-Disk Diseases -- Intermediate Filament Diseases: Desminopathy -- Muscular Integrity—A Matter of Interlinking Distinct Structures via Plectin -- The Sarcomere and the Nucleus: Functional Links to Hypertrophy, Atrophy and Sarcopenia -- Other Model Organisms for Sarcomeric Muscle Diseases -- Therapeutic Approaches for the Sarcomeric Protein Diseases.

Although best known for its role in heart disease, the sarcomere--the fundamental unit of muscle contraction--is also involved in skeletal muscle diseases. Chapters in The Sarcomere and Skeletal Muscle Disease provide an up-to-date review of diseases caused by mutated proteins in the different sub-compartments of the sarcomere, document the techniques currently being used to investigate the pathobiological bases of the diseases, which remain largely unknown, and discuss possible therapeutic options.

Para consulta fuera de la UANL se requiere clave de acceso remoto.